On Mar 20, 2004, at 3:06 AM, Jaspreet Singh wrote:
>
> Prompt replies make me so happy :)
>
> I tried returning the documentElement from getFirstChild but it didn't
> work.... What worked was returning the first child of the
> documentElement.
> Is this right?
I would recommend reading a tutorial on DOM. Almost any good
introductory XML book should have one. There are also many on the web,
see http://xmlfiles.com/dom/, http://www.xml.com/pub/rg/141,
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.0/tutorial/doc/JAXPDOM.html
General question on usage should be directed to the users mailing list
associated with your DOM implementation of choice, for example,
xerces-j-users@xml.apache.org.
If you implementing the DOM for a class assignment, you should
investigate using the DOM Test Suite (http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test) to
check your interpretation of the specification. If you are
implementing the DOM and it is not for a class assignment, then you
might want to reconsider since there are no shortage of existing
implementations for common programming languages and platforms.